--- title: As it drew near, the rich carving and gilding with which it was deco… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics description: As it drew near, the rich carving and gilding with which it was decorated, its silken bandaroles, and banks of crimson oars, showed it to be no warlike vessel, but a sumptuous galleot, destined for state and ceremony. Who acts: bark, rich carving, banks. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bark, rich carving, banks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77685:4:10 # text = As it drew near, the rich carving and gilding with which it was decorated, its silken bandaroles, and banks of crimson oars, showed it to be no warlike vessel, but a sumptuous galleot, destined for state and ceremony. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 near near ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 carving carving NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 gilding gild VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 obl _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 decorated decorate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 silken silken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 bandaroles bandarole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 banks bank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 crimson crimson NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 oars oar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 27 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 31 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 33 det _ _ 32 warlike warlike ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 vessel vessel NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 sumptuous sumptuous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 galleot galleot NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 destined destine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 ceremony ceremony NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **draw** | past | bark | the rich carving | | | | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carving=Theme | | 2 | **gild** | gerund | the rich carving *not said here* | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **decorate** | past · passive | | bark | | | | bark's silken bandaroles *obl*; which *obl* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with which=Theme | | 4 | **show** | past | banks of crimson oars | bark | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | no warlike vessel | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **destine** | participle · passive | | a sumptuous galleot | | | | for state and ceremony | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/4/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/4/11/) - ↑ back to [Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/4/)